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Quotes About Happen

Maybe they're not as mindless as we thought, or so dedicated to turning every last human into one of them. Like Kalyn says, they were just bored, waiting for something better to happen. And that better thing is us.
~ Scott Westerfeld
You are not your work. Your work is a series of choices made with generous intent to cause something to happen. We can always learn to make better choices.
~ Seth Godin
Marketers make change happen: for the smallest viable market, and by delivering anticipated, personal, and relevant messages that people actually want to get.
~ Seth Godin
The real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur.
~ Colum McCann
I think if anybody is making a movie about your life something pretty incredible had to happen.
~ Miles Teller
There is no fanaticism in any of this. There is intensity. You have to make it happen. You have to put your will into perfecting your daily life, into monitoring your thoughts.
~ Frederick Lenz
Ah, Los Angeles! Dust and fog of your lonely streets, I am no longer lonely. Just you wait, all of you ghosts of this room, just you wait, because it will happen, as sure as there's a God in heaven.
~ John Fante
Maybe the wind will get up again," he added hopefully. "Maybe," Jesper replied. He sounded a lot less hopeful about it. "I've found in the past that when you're in a jam and you really need something to happen, it usually doesn't.
~ John Flanagan
It was the secret of advancement in the service: Always be on the side of what is going to happen anyway.
~ John Jackson Miller
though this can scarce happen amongst that part of mankind that have consented to the use of money.
~ John Locke
I knew that nothing stranger had ever happened, that nothing stranger could ever happen.
~ Elizabeth Bishop
It seemed to them dreadfully dangerous to put it into words like that, for lately the things they didn't want to happen were the things that happened and the logic of this was that if you pretended not to want what you really wanted dreadfully you would be more likely to get it.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
Centuries of centuries and only in the present do things happen. —JORGE LUIS BORGES
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
The first experiment already illustrates a truth of the theory, well confirmed by practice, what-ever can happen will happen if we make trials enough.
~ Augustus De Morgan
He seemed to study her. "I think I might surprise you." She feared that was definitely what might happen.
~ B.J. Daniels
You don't have any kind of control ultimately. Things are just going to happen as they will. And I think your best option sometimes is just to react rather than try to plan everything out in advance.
~ Jason Isbell
Heaven is a place where you cannot change and nothing can ever happen, so the things you love are always eternal. Hell is exactly the same.
~ Geoff Ryman
I am interested in the ordinary sort of threat. I know that people are interested in things like serial killers and what have you, but actually, those aren't the sort of crimes that really happen very much. The sort of crimes that happen tend to be more of a domestic nature and quite banal, but the psychology behind them is always fascinating.
~ Paula Hawkins
Receiving the National Medal of Science is the thrill of a lifetime, but good science does not happen in isolation.
~ Sandra Faber
We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen.
~ Brian Mulroney
Live you life, Sido, whatever happens. Live in the moment, don't live with regret.' He took his last kiss.
~ Sally Gardner
Clouds out of control decoct anticipation. What use can any of us have for two moons? The miracle of order has run out and I am left in an unmiraculous city where anything may happen.
~ Samuel R. Delany
I know what it feels like to watch something happen and wish, going forward, that you could do something, anything, to change at least your world, the people around you, to keeo everything close to you safe
~ Sara Shepard
If this kept up much longer, I was going to happen to someone.
~ Sarah A. Hoyt